Songfacts®:

• Lead singer Christian Lindskog: "This was a possible title for the record for me. It was one of the first things I wrote and was very much tied to the intro piece. During my time in Africa I dealt with a lot of conflict about my feelings towards what I was seeing. There is so much devastation it is hard not to become numb to it and just shut down. When I came home I found the same thing was really true for everything we have to deal with from our TV sets. I hadn't seen any TV for 6 weeks and when I turned it back on I was so shocked by what I was seeing and I realized we become numb to the things that come out of our TV everyday. The lyric was actually pretty much improvised in the studio. It was one of the first vocals I did. With every record we make it seems like I never have the lyrics ready until the last minute, and sometime not even then! So I ended up working on things at the mic. This was definitely one of those. The idea of the frost in the grass is one I really love. It always looks so beautiful when you see a field covered in frost. I want to take my shoes off and run in it, but the reality is, ITS COLD. And eventually its not just your feet that are cold, but your whole body. People's hearts are slowly becoming colder, emotions are being replaced, we want to escape from ourselves. We are on a treadmill of performance but performance without purpose. You can blame society but we are society. Eventually what is in your heart makes you take a stand.
• Drummer Marcus Dahlstrom: "I have kind of a thing on the side writing electronic music. I love it. I have a lot of music like this and Simon heard this one track I was working on and thought we should turn it into a Blindside song. I was a little unsure about how we would make it work but he found a way to translate the riff to the guitar. So I started to play what I had programmed and we ended up with the basic structure of the song. We experimented with this track a lot. From this original idea to convert an electronic track to something more organic. One night Lasse and I were in the studio fooling around with some delays to spice the song up a bit and we ended up with a very strange layering of delays. We played around with some EQ and ended up with a very atmospheric piece that sounded nothing like the original song. That actually turned into the basis for music beneath the intro. Then Simon and Christian did there thing and then we had the intro! I also played a second drum part at half speed on the end of this song and then we doubled it to bring it up to tempo. It is the high sound you hear on the final chorus. A lot of people think it is programming, but it is all live drums." >>

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  Tim - PGH, PA, for above 2